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October 2007

October 19, 2007

Hi y'all! Big thanks to Kim and Jo for the sweet post they did when I couldn't get proper internet access. Aren't bloggy friends wonderful? It's been a bit hectic but everything is looking great. I'm back home for a few days and then will resume work out of town until the end of November, AT WHICH TIME...

We will be MOVING!!! We just returned from house hunting/interviews on the East Coast and we will be moving into our new home, which is so elegantly pictured above, the first week of December. Actually, it looks like we will be renting since the real estate market is so dire (unless someone wants to purchase Casapinka for sentimental reasons.)

Of course, wherever we go, Casapinka comes with us, so watch out East Coast landlords: Paint those walls or I'll do it for you!

I will be back blogging regularly in December - I really miss it. I've forgotten my casapinka email password so until I can figure it out please understand why no emails are answered. Thanks to all of you for your support - life is already so much better than it has been in the past year!

October 01, 2007

Hey everybody, Kim here from desire to inspire. You might be wondering what I’m doing posting on Casapinka. Well, if you must know, I just found out that Pink has been suffering from designofridamifidus, a rare disorder where a person becomes so obsessed with decorating and anything associated with Frida that they have heart palpitations and difficulties breathing. No really, she did get in contact with me recently and gave me the scoop on her disappearance from blogland. She misses everyone terribly and wanted me to explain why she hasn’t been able to blog.

We’ve all heard Pink’s stories about the terrible work environment at the hospital where she was a doctor. It just became unbearable for her and stressed her out to the max. So for her sanity she had to quit – and quick. In order to find other work in a stable environment she’s moving out of state working locums out of town and thankfully onto greener pastures. Her life is pretty much total chaos right now and she has limited access to the internet. She wanted to make sure I mentioned how she’s dying to get back to blogging and how much you all mean to her. She should be back posting around the second week of December. She’s hoping that we will all have faith in her, and hang in there while she gets her life back in order. Let me be the first to say that if she’s worried we’ll forget about her, she can add INSANE along with her symptoms of stress and depression. Because she is one of the most amazing people I’ve gotten to know since starting blogging and I have all the faith in the world that she’ll come back in December better and stronger than ever with even more hilarious kid stories, crazy (and inspiring) design ideas and scary Frida art finds. Correct me if I’m wrong, but blogland hasn’t been the same without her. So December better get here soon because we love you and need you back Pink!!!!

I couldn’t write up this post without including some photos, since Jo and I are photo fanatics on our blog (thanks Jo for helping me gather these). The following photos are a tribute to our dear friend, blogger extraordinaire, Pink.

I’ve got to start off with one word – Frida. Pink has a thing for artwork of famous women, and Frida is I think her favourite. I never could understand this, as the woman terrifies me, so Pink loved to send me photos of new (and scarier) Frida art she had found. (Nightmares ensued).

In my search for a Frida photo, I came across this fabric and thought Pink would totally get a kick out of it. It would have fit right in (to my horror) with her Hemingway room.

Then there was Jackie O. At least she didn’t have a unibrow.

Neither did Amelie.

She loves Venetian mirrors….but then again, don’t we all? She had a beautiful display of them in her hallway. Sort of looked like this, but better.

I had posted this photo one day for her, because it just screams Pink. Venetian mirrors and bold vibrant colours, including pink.

The following photos were contributed by Jo. Rooms of pink. Rooms of Pink.